Eclipse Juno: Windows "Open File" dialog box does not work

Question

I recently move to Eclipse Juno from Indigo. Although Juno works perfectly as far as my needs the windows "Open" dialog box does not load for some reason. For example, File/Open File does not work.

This is a problem across all places where we need to include a file like adding external JARs or any other place where files need to be added from a windows directory. "Include Directory" does work where I need to get the directory included but the issue is only with file dialog box.

I have a Windows 7 64 bit and it’s a Eclipse with Java & CDT plug-in. Reinstalling eclipse would be a last resort as I would need to re-configure 40+ projects again as we have a very peculiar setup here.

I did try to research this but hardly could find more details.. Any pointers to fix this issue will be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Just wanted to add that tooltip does not work up when I hower mouse on the different icons/files ect, not sure if this is related but just wanted to mention. Also, I tried updating my eclipse to Kepler but it still does not work, I am now wondering if my Windows 7 has something to do with this..?

Answer 1

I was able to finally resolve this based on research done in this Eclipse bug. My work machine still has java 1.6.0_26 and this release has a bug related to AWT.

I changed the eclipse's java version to 1.6.0_45 and this issue was resolved. I used -vm parameter in eclipse.ini file in to tell eclipse to use a different version.